Washington created something called NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 to weld Western Europe firmly to the future foreign policies of Washington, however destructive that might prove to the genuine interests of Germany, France, Italy and the other nations of Europe. In 1986 the twelve nations of the then-European Economic Community modified the 1957 Treaty of Rome and signed the Single European Act. That mandated the creation of a single EEC market by end of 1992, and set forth rules for European Political Cooperation, the forerunner of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Then on November 9, 1989, an event of
historic dimension intervened to disrupt the EEC strategy for a single
market. Gorbachev’s USSR surrendered the German Democratic Republic to
the West. The Cold War was de facto over. Germany would be reunited. The
West had apparently won. Most Europeans were jubilant. Many believed
the decades of living on the brink of possible nuclear war were over.
The emerging Europe seemed proud, confident of the future. NATO was an
entity created by Washington, in the words of its first General
Secretary, Lord Ismay, to “keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and
the Germans down.”
European Defense Pillar or US NATO?
The Maastricht Treaty, a document with
fatal flaws, was introduced at a meeting of the EEC in December 1991. A
shocked Helmut Kohl was told by France’s Mitterrand and Britain’s
Margaret Thatcher that Germany must agree to creation of a single
currency to control the Bundesbank. That became today’s Euro and an
independent supranational European Central Bank. It was blackmail as
precondition for their accepting German unification. The Germans
swallowed hard and signed.
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